The Saint's Hope
Chapter 2 – Things Change
Disclaimer: I do not repeat DO NOT own TMNT and crew in any way cause they belong to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (Only knows as the Greatest Guys on Earth!) while other characters like Sally and many more that happen in this fanfic rightfully belongs to me and only ME!
Announcement from our writer: Well, with the first chapter up, the next few will be piece of pizza pie! ^^ Sorry! A little inside Turtle Joke if you know what I mean. Anyway, just then, I just got a fight with my sister who has been constantly annoying like there is no tomorrow because she has been begging me to fix up her iTunes and music and she is only frigging 11 years old! Trust me. If there is anyone out who is dealing with the same problem, raise your hand!
But, let's not get all the negative energy hold me down from writing my fanfics. Let's move on with the VERY FIRST EPISODE!
(Manhattan, NY – unknown time)
It was night-time in New York City; windy perhaps but also it was a clear night sky. The five teenagers are backed up in an alley way with no hope of escaping. Instead, they are going to do what they do best: Fight. As they prepares by taking a few steps forwards, their opponents are a couple of street thugs; also approaches them.
The blue turtle himself takes centre stage as he narrates for the show.
My name is Leonardo. And right now my brothers, my sister and I are in a mess of trouble."
The thugs then pull out their chains and metal pipes to give the newcomers a beating of a life time. The turtle himself could only glares at his and his family's first ever opponents whom are armed and ready.
Our backs are up against the wall in some trash strewn alley, cornered by the toughest street gang in the East Side.
"Look at the freaks." One of the members said; wielding his metal staff at them. The human beside the turtle doesn't appreciate his remark since she is a lot different than her brothers.
An overweight thug takes a crack at it as he asked. "What's with the dweeby costumes?"
"This ain't Halloween." Remark another thug; spinning his chain around in a small circle.
The leader of the pack appears to have blue bright long hair; almost the same colour as the girl's bandana. His outfit is consider a long purple coat with yellow sleeves that has picture what appears to be purple lizards or dragons. Underneath it is his black shirt and pants with a purple belt with a sliver belt buckle and top it off is his purple finger-less gloves, purple shoes and dogs tags around his neck.
"You're going down, freaks." The leader said. He then takes out what appears to be his staff from behind him. He twirls it his hand and swing it around him. He then points his finger towards them.
"Nobody messes with the Purple Dragons, especially wearing stupid turtle costumes." He advises his opponents for tonight. So, they appear to be called "The Purple Dragons". Figures.
The five teens just keep staring at the thugs; with their signatures weapons in hand. The blue turtle pulls out his last sword from his scabbard. He growls with grit as he and his siblings prepare themselves.
"He's wrong. We're not wearing costumes."
The ninja team of five leaps forward and the fight begins.
(Manhattan, NY – 8:30pm)
The day of Sally's birthday has nearly gone by in a heartbeat. First, she received a wonderful present from her father which it is followed by a horror movie marathon with her brothers that lasted out through the entire afternoon. Not much of a birthday but to her, it meant something; Spending time with her family means very much to her.
Soon came night where the teens are engaged in their nightly training like their Sensei promise because of their sister birthday. Their training for today has involved their home completely dark. No light was visible but only the lit candle in the rat's grasp.
"Remember, to be a true ninja you must be one with the shadows. Darkness gives the ninja cover while light reveals the ninja's presence." Splinter says; holding up his walking stick with the lit candle on the end. "Now, can you extinguish this flame without revealing yourselves?" He flipped the candle into the air and caught it with eyes closed; preparing for the first attacker.
The first figure tries to grab it at a running speed but failed to do so when the rat pulls it down causing the attacks to slam into the wall; dropping his bo staff.
"Too noisy, Donatello." he exclaim with half lidded eyes. According to his book, Splinter: 1. His students: 0. But he cannot celebrate just yet since he has four more student to go.
The second figure; with his nunkuchus in his hand, tries as quietly as possible by tried to hit the candle out of his hand but failed as well when the master pulls the candle away as he stands up and flips him over and crush into his brother.
"Too clumsy, Michelangelo." The rat said with his eyes still shut close. With two attackers down, Splinter was just getting warmed up. The third figure decided to try to sneak behind him. As he approaches the rat, he tries to tackle his father but Splinters ducks the attack. The figures lands on its feet, turns around and faces his teacher, with his Sais in his hand. Splinter holds the candle, firmly in his grasp and watches his opponent with a close-eye. He knows that this figure is a bit rushed to get the candle. The figure twirls his Sais as he comes charging in but didn't have time to react when the master sit back down on his knees and tripped him with his walking stick, making him slam into the first two. They all groaned in agony as the rat master stood up, candle still in his hand.
"Poor choice Raphael." Splinter says; opening his eyes. The rat was winning so far with him: 3 and his students: 0. But it was not over just yet. He was missing two more. The fourth figure jumps down and lands in a drop-stance. The figure then pulls out one of her sword from her scabbard that hangs from her waist and holds in her grasp, near her head. She was planning to stab the candle as she claimed to be the fastest in her family. She then jumps forward; attempting to hit her target but the rat quickly pass the candle from his left hand to his right as he uses his free hand to grab her wrist, pulls her forward and perform a shoulder throw over his shoulder which caused the figure to drop her weapon and crash landed on the first three who are just recovering. The figure lands upside down as she runs her head.
"So close." The fourth hisses in disappointment. The rat passes the candle back to his left hand. He then shakes his head. "Too obvious, Salvadora." With all four of his student down, there was only just one more left. The fourth figure secretly looks up to see the fifth and last figure; hovering silently above, just waiting for the right moment. She hopes he would win this round. As soon he drops, he quickly pulls his two swords out from his back and manages to cut the candle into two. He lands gracefully on the floor with his sword out in front. The top half of the candle lands on his sword. The fifth figure brings his sword near his face as he blows the candle out; making the room goes into complete darkness. Looks like the student have narrowly won the round.
Master Splinter goes over to the power box and turned the lights back on. The entire lair is lit up as four other teens have recovered themselves from the impact.
"Well done, Leonardo." The rat congratulates his eldest son in success. Leo smirked with pride tossing the top half up and down in the air. Raphael looks on with an envy look on his face. His older brother has done it again; by being the biggest show-off of all.
"Teacher's pet." Raphael muttered with bitterness in his tone.
"Ninja dropout." Leo countered; tossing the top half to Raph.
"Oooh'ed!" Don and Mikey teased their brother at the comeback while Sally giggles at that remark. The hothead crushed it in his hand and advanced to fight his brother as Leo gets ready to defend himself. But their Sensei – their father- halts them in their tracks.
"My children!" he orders. Leo and Raph stops and turns to Master Splinter. The rat master then sighed and placed a hand on his forehead. "My children, if you are to become true ninja you must work harder."
As he continued, everyone got in line and sat on their knees in front of Splinter. "Your path in life will not be an easy one." Master Splinter continues onwards. "The outside world will not be a friendly place for you. You five are different in ways the surface dwellers would never understand."
Sally was starting to become irritated because she understands there are human up on the surface but what irritates her most is that her father wouldn't let her up on the surface, under any circumstances.
"To survive, you must master these skills I teach you." As Master Splinter continues to speak, Mikey was being distracted by a fly. He tries to capture it while Master Splinter continues to lecture his children. "Ninjutsu powers of stealth and secrecy, you must become Kage, Shadow Warriors, and you must never be discovered by the outside world." Sally looks over to see her brother next to her; trying to "capture" his opponent. Before Mikey catches the fly in the palm of his hands, Sally uses her speed and grabs the fly with no difficulty, and also beating her brother to it. Mikey yelps at the sight of her hand and glares at her while she smirks at him. But all of a sudden, Sally lets the fly and quickly puts her hand down on the ground. Like this morning, Sally has the ability to detect or "sense" any vibrations within the ground for any intruders. It was really helpful for her training as a ninja and for her family in case for any trespassers.
"Salvadora? Is everything alright?" Master Splinter asked his daughter but no answer. Not yet.
She closes her eyes to get a better sense of the source. As her entire family watches her like a hawk, she finally opens her eyes and looks up to see her father with alerting news.
"Something comi—" before she could finished it, the lair starts to shake as stones and debris started to fall down from the ceiling.
"What is that noise?" Splinter asks. The walls started to crumble; they all stood up looking around, frantically trying to figure out what was going on.
Mikey walks over to his brainy brother. "Whoa! Earthquake!" Mikey exclaim while backing away with the others.
"In New York?" Don wondered, rubbing his chin. "Possible, but not likely." Luckily Don was quickly to counter as he jumped out of the way when a large slab of stone that broke off from the wall, nearly crashed him.
"I don't think it's an earthquake, you guys." Sally reminded her mutant brothers.
"What ya mean, Sal?" Raph asked.
Before she continues, a portion of the celling begins to crumble and finally caves in. Sally was standing directly beneath the crumbling ceiling. She looks up, alarmed, only to be grabbed by Leo.
"Watch out!" he barks as he pulls her into his arms and they roll across the floor, the debris from the ceiling crashing several feet away from them. They finally settle on the ground as Sally looks up to see her big brother; hovering over her.
"Thanks." she acknowledges him who nods in return. They look up to see a small mechanical creature appeared but then more appeared; giving off a weird screech. These "creatures" appeared to be about knee high. Their head has built-in sharp jaws that proved to be strong enough to bite down anything since it brought down the wall of the lair and stand on their two legs.
As the family of ninjas got a good look of their new "guests", they all draw out their weapons.
"What are those things?" Leo asked; hopefully an answer from the smart turtle.
"New York City Cockroaches?" Mikey joked in his usual manner. But this was no time to be joking around for the good-humoured turtle.
"Whatev'r they are, they picked da wrong party ta crash!" Raph said as he charges in and kicks the first one to the ground. It was suck but it pretty much starts the whole mess of as the robots come charge in.
Donatello wracks the first one with his staff but as soon the second comes around, it was smart enough to chomp down on the stick; halting Don's attack but the smart turtle counter it by lifting his bo staff, with the robot still holding on and smashes it onto the ground.
Mikey did his part as he whacks a number of robot's head with nunchakus. As he took down pretty much half a dozen, he decided to use teamwork in the miss. He grabbed two more and decided to bring in the "Sword Siblings".
"Hey, Leo and Sal, think fast!" He tossed it to them whom sliced them up no difficult. Leo then jumps in the air and does an aerial move which slices one in the air and another as soon as it landed on the ground.
Sally did her fair share. As three more robots approach her, she jumps right behind them and does a horizontal slice; separating their heads from their feeble body.
Master Splinter wasn't having an advantage battle of himself. As he continues to wrack the robots with his stick, more of the mechanic menaces keeps on coming. Leo looks over and to his horror's, he saw the majority of them that were around Master Splinter. He then realised that he and his brothers and sister were supposed to protect their Sensei, not themselves.
"We have to help Master Splinter. Come on." Leo order his siblings as they made their way through more of the weird mechanical machines were chewing through the supports that kept their home intact to their father.
Master Splinter was doing his best; trying holding them off by smashing them. Especially for his staff that can slice through four more of them like a sharp katana.
As the robots keep munching away on the support beams, the teens continue to fight them. Raph was getting close his Sensei as he hits the robot away but the ceiling starts to crack and Raph was about to be buried alive! Luckily, his older brother was fortunate to notice.
"Look out!" He manages to pull his brother just before the ceiling gave in and the debris hit him.
The teens see the father; still battling the robots when the rest of the ceiling in-front of them came crashing down; thus crushing the remaining creatures and causing a huge dust cloud. The teens looked shocked at this event.
"Oh no!" Leo said; whom raced into the dust cloud.
"Master Splinter!" Raph added as he and the others followed him.
Leo approaches the rubble and tries to pull a rather large stone out of the way. Sally came to his side and helped. "Master Splinter? Master Splinter!" Leo looked through the rubble frantically. "NOOOOO!" He shouted.
It was officially. Master Splinter was separating from his children and was gone.
Sally moves closer to the rubble and placed her hands on the surface and closes her eyes; hoping to "hear" her father as Leo tried his best to move the rubble out of the way in order to find their rat master.
One of the robot was still activated but was destroyed by Raph whom stepped on one; effectively shutting it up. Guess the hothead of the team is not too pleased of them intruding their home and making them lose their father in the miss. He does his usual spinning of his Sais before replacing them back in his belt. He goes over to Mikey who was studying another deactivated bunch.
"What the shell are those things?" Mikey asked
"Whatever they were," he kicked the pile away. "they're junk now."
Leo started searching again but in a more calm fashion. "Guys, Splinter, we've got to find Splinter," He stood up. "Master Splinter, can you hear me?" He also noticed Sally beside with her hands in front who then open her eyes up will glee.
"Guys! I can sense him! He's on the other side." She announces which everyone was relieved to hear
"And…" Leo wonders; hoping for some more good news. Sally opens her eyes and begins to hesitate.
"I…I don't know. I wish I know if he's okay but all I know is that he is on the other side and he isn't crushed – which it is lucky – but I can't tell if he is alive…or not…" she looks with disappointment. She was miserable that she can't seem to sense if Master Splinter was okay. Leo places his hand on her shoulder and smiles at her; indicating that she did her best and was thankfully to bring the news about Splinter. Sally acknowledges him by smiling back.
"But Sal, can't you just use your psychic mumbo jumbo to move the rocks?" Mikey asked; pleading for his sister's help. Sally signs and puts on an irritated look on and turns to her little brother.
"Ok, one: It's Telekinetic, Mikey. Two: I'm might do more harm than good if I move these rocks with my powers and hurt Master Splinter and three: Since when are you asking for my help that involves using my powers because you always have been teasing about them EVER SINCE I GOT THEM!" She raised her voice near the end for Mikey to get the point. That actually scared the orange turtle out of his shell. At times, Sally does have a habit to scare her brothers.
Since Sally can't sense if Splinter was ok or her powers are not advance enough to move the rocks, it was time to move on to Plan B.
"Donatello, anyway to –" He was then interrupted when he heard the sounds of buttons and a ring tone. He looks over to see his younger brother on their own communication device: the Shell Cell.
"What are you doing?" He asked; walking up to Don who had his Shell Cell next to his ear. He turns to his older brother with a prospect look on his face.
"Shell Cell. I'm calling Master Splinter…I hope…"
On the other side of the rubble, a ringing sound was made not far from the teens as it was coming from the rat. Sally was right. Master Splinter was on the other side and not crushed but is he alright?
Splinter opens his eyes and begins to sit up while rubbing his head from the impact. The ringing sound must have woken him up. He pulls out what appears to be his own Shell Cell from his robe and managed to open it.
He rubs his chin; ponder to operate the Shell Cell. "Hmm, which button do you press to answer this thing?" he asked himself; pressing the button on the phone.
At the moment of his voice which put a smile on everyone's faces. Leo grabs the phone out of Don's grasp.
"Hello?" Splinter answer; hoping for his children to hear him.
"Master Splinter, are you alright?" His eldest asked. But the rat continued to press more buttons.
"HELLO?" The rat answers it again but this time much louder. So far for him, he can't seem to pay attention to his eldest son since he is busy trying to work the device.
"Master Splinter…" Leo asked again.
"Stupid device…" Master Splinter grumbles silently. It was also officially. Splinter couldn't handle any electronic devices. Sally couldn't help nonetheless giggle at her master's remark but relieved to hear him okay.
"…You don't have to press any buttons, you already answered it." Leo answered it slowly near the end; seeing how amusing it was.
"See? This is why Splinter and technological don't mix. He just lucky enough to understand how opens a newspaper." Sally whisper to Raph who nods in agreement.
"I heard that, Salvadora!" he snapped. Sally actually cried out a little yelp when her Sensei heard her.
"Looks like somebody gonna get the stick." Raph whispers to her. Sally could only glare at him but her face becomes pitiful when she turned her attention to the phone.
"Gomenasai, Master Splinter." she apologetic to her father on the phone for her comment as her master continues to speak.
"Leonardo, whatever those mechanical menaces are, they have managed to eat through the support structure of our home. We must leave right away." The teens all huddle around Leo while holding on to the Shell Cell as more debris fell from the ceiling. Looks like the teens will have to move out the destroyed lair and fast.
"Meet me at the old drainage junction in south point." Mikey tried to in closer but unfortunately, he was in his older brother's way which caused Raph to shoving him into the rubble. As soon hit the impact, Mikey was groaning in pain. Don pulled a map out of his duffel bag and blew some dust off of it. He opens the map up to show the part of the sewer and their…former home.
"If we take the south conduit, it'll intersect with the old drainage tunnel." Don said.
Leo nodded; agreeing with his little brother's plan. "We'll meet you there Sensei." Before he hangs up, Sally grabbed the Shell Cell out of his hand and talked into it.
"Master Splinter, do you have any injuries? If so, don't strain too much, ok? We'll be there as soon as we can so I can heal you up." She said; concerning for her father's wellbeing. Sally proves to be the nurse of the family of ninjas.
"I am fine, Salvadora. There is nothing here to fix up. Go with your brothers and meet up at the rendezvous." Master Splinter concluded as Sally hangs up the Shell Cell.
Then Mikey rushed back over placing a hand on both Leo's and Donnie's shoulder after he recovered himself. "What'd he say? What'd he say? Did he mention me?"
This caused Raph to push him again; just for the amusement of his three other siblings.
The five teens decided to gather what little remains of their home they could find that was useful on their journey. Sally finds her diary still under her pillow; not damaged from the attack. She carefully places the item in her backpack that she normally uses. As they prepared to leave, Mikey insisted on saying his goodbyes to their former home.
"Goodbye, broken drain pipe. Goodbye, grungy pay phone. Goodbye, dented manhole cover. Goodbye home, sweet home." Mikey said; farewelling the place they know and love for years.
"Hello cruel world." Raph added; coming up behind the orange turtle as he was getting impatient with his goodbyes. "Come on!" he said in his usual gruff voice yanking Mikey away by his bandana tails.
As the teens exit out of their former home, they all observed the damage done to the sewer walls. They couldn't believe that something small can do a lot of damage.
"Looks like those things have been through here." Leo mentioned; taking the lead.
"You said it." Sally agreed him as she looks around the sewer tunnels.
"These walls are seriously compromised, it's lucky this roof hasn't caved in." Donnie lecture on the group. But Don was about to eat his words when they were continuing their short journey, a large problem stood in their way. The roof had indeed collapsed, blocking off their only straight way to the old drainage tunnel.
"You were saying?" Raph said to his technological brother.
Leo gave out a frustrated sigh. Well, so much for the usual plan. "Can't go forward, can't go back." With no way around, that leaves only other option and Raph thinks that his sister is really gonna like this one.
"Looks like we go up." Raph headed straight to the nearest manhole ladder. When Raph mention the word up, Sally was actually jumping for joy. Well, not in reality but deep down she is. She finally gets to go up to the surface. She quickly followed Raph who was already climbing the ladder as she is aching for some fresh air and wide open spaces without hearing Master Splinter constantly tell her not to go up there under any circumstances.
"I'm with Raph on this one!" she eagerly as she starts climbing but someone grabbed her by the shoulders. She looks over her right to see a concern Leo.
"Hitting the surface is a bad idea." Leo stated to his brother and sister who were on the ladder.
"Not for me. You know how long I have been waiting for this moment, Leo. Seeing other people, cruising around the surface, blending in with everyone? You guys have no idea what it is like to be the only human down here but I do!" Sally said with misery in her tone.
Leo looks at her with sorrowful expression. He understands what Sally has been going through. He understands why he and his brothers should never be seen by a human's eye but Sally? She is a human. All she ever wanted was freedom and nothing more. He closes his eyes for a minute and opens them up again to see the look on his sister's face. "I understands how much you want to but –"
"—but we've got no other way to go, Leo." the brainy turtle reminded his older brother.
Sighing once again, Leo went into leader mode and faces his other two brothers. "Alright, but we're only going up to go down the next manhole, got it. No fooling around, remember what sensei said. It's dangerous for us to be seen, let alone captured. We need to stay out of sight."
Raph, on the other hand was getting a bit impatient as he finds himself hanging upside down; just a centimetre from Sally's head.
"We got it the first thousand times, Leo. Just follow my lead." Raph said as he climbs up the ladder. Sally mouths "Thank you" to Leo for giving her this one chance. As she climbs up, Leo follows her with Mikey after him and Don last.
As they got to the surface, Sally was actually getting excited by the minute. Raph moves the manhole lid and was the first out of the manhole. Sally was the next one and they both jumped out into the ally. Leo, on the other hand, took longer as he was observing the area constantly on the lookout for potential threats.
"Come on Leo, move it, I don't wanna be staring at your butt any longer than I have to." Mikey complained being that he was right behind their Fearless Leader. As the three other turtles climbed out of the hole, Sally, on the other hand, becomes absolutely stunned. She has only seen New York on television but now, she was experience it in person and she absolutely loved it; every minute of it. As she begins to admire the full moon, she was pulled back into reality when she senses something coming this way.
"Shhh, guys…" Sally warned as Leo ducked back down and she and Raph hid in the shadows while a guy on a Moped went by.
When the Moped finally left in sight, Raph moves out onto the streets but Sally senses "something" else.
"Raph, hide!" she warned him but he also hear people about to come through the door next to him so he flips up to the little shade that hangs above the door just before two people have just come out. Raph then jumps higher onto a nearby pipeline. Sally looks over to see the hothead turtle on the pipeline.
"Raph, any sign of manhole?" she asked. She was also hoping that he can't see one so they have to look for another one because she starting to enjoy herself on the day she gets to go up to the surface on the day of her birthday. The turtle looks around to see another manhole – in another alleyway just across the streets!
"Ah! Manhole cover - 12:00." He said to himself. Raph looks down to Sally and points to the streets across the road. Well, so much for freedom for one night. Maybe tomorrow. Raph jumps from the pipeline and lands gracefully and jumps over a parked car and hides behind it just before he was spotted an active car coming his way.
As Leo, Don and Mikey climbed out of the manhole, they joined Sally who was keeping an eye on Raph who just made it to the other side.
"Where's Raph?" the blue turtle asked his sister. She points to the hothead turtle that was just across the streets to her brothers.
On the other side, Raph was just about to approach to the manhole when he spotted a nearby truck that was heading towards to Raph!
"Awww! Now what?" he states as he ducks behind the car to avoid being seen as the vehicle came to stop. Raph was worried that he been spotted but to his relief, the truck was put into reverse – into the same alleyway where the manhole is. As the armoured truck has come to a stop, the headlights were switch off and four people got out of the truck. Raph peers around the corner and decided to wait until they have gone inside the building. When they did, Raph went over to the van to find out that the vehicle is parked right over a manhole cover. The red turtle was not in a happy mood.
"Great… just great… the ol' turtle luck running true to form." he mumbled; in a grouchily tone. He then kicks the truck in anger before being seen by his siblings who have joined him.
"Way to be stealthy, Raph." Leo whispered. Raph looks over to see his brothers and sister watching him.
"Yeah, I don't think they heard you over in Joisy!" Mikey joking in what seems to be a Brooklyn Accent with the word "Joisy". Sally could only roll her eyes at her younger brother's remark.
"Give me a hand." Raph pointed at the truck; indicating them to help him push. Mikey raised his hands ready to clap…
"Don't even think about it, Mikey." He said as he wags his finger at him; telling him off or else. Sally puts Mikey's hands down as Leo shook his head and points his thumb at Mikey; sharing an 'I-Don't-Get-Him-Either' sort of look.
"Aw for git you guys I'll push it myself." Raph shrugged them off and moved to the back of the truck to push it out of the way but no avail. Sally quickly runs over to him.
"Need a hand?" she asked as she helps him pushed the truck. No matter how hard they push, the vehicles would not just budge.
"Can ya use your psychic powers to help push this thing?" Raph asked; hoping her powers would come handy.
"It's Telekinetic, Raph and I don't think I can push things just ye—" Just like before, she becomes alert and looks over to where she see a door. She senses people that were coming from inside and there are about to come this way!
Sally took her time to jump onto the roof of the truck; keeping herself out of view from anyone seeing her.
"What's wrong, Sal?" he asked her but the sound of door unlocking; not to mention voices that were coming from inside. Understand what Sally meant, he needs to disappear and fast.
"Hide Raph, come on! Hurry!" Not thinking straight and just before the door was open, the rushed Raph jumped into the back of the truck just as the owners of the truck who have just come out.
"No!" All of them groaned while Sally smacks herself in the head.
"Poor choice, Raphael." Mikey said repeating their master's words and also smacks himself in the head. Raphael has made a poor choice indeed. Sally crawls backwards to avoid being seen as the owners of the trucks who came out with this time, bags full of cash.
"Heh heh! Did you see the way that guy squirmed when we took his cash? Sheep, man – sheep to be fleeced by us wolves." Said what appears to be the leader of the gang as he and the gang throw the bags into the truck. Luckily, they didn't manage to see a large green turtle in the back because Raph was hanging in the celling. Sally then realized these guys are reason behind the recent robberies that she heard on the news.
The leader of the pack appears to have blue bright long hair; almost the same colour as the girl's bandana. His outfit is consider a long purple coat with yellow sleeves that has picture what appears to be purple lizards or dragons. Underneath it is his black shirt and pants with a purple belt with a sliver belt buckle and top it off is his purple finger-less gloves, purple shoes and dogs tags around his neck. He goes by the name John.
The one next to him who has red spiky hair with a goatee who also wears dog tags but wrapped in a chain necklace, a black tattled singlet, metal elbow pads, white bandage that covers his hands and goes up to his elbows, blue pants and yellow shoes with white laces. He also has a dragon tattoo that goes in a spiral shape. He goes by the name Spike.
The other close to them is an overweight thug with a blue singlet that has the dragon picture with a yellow circle in the background who also wears green cargo pants with a large chain belt that fits around his tummy, black sneakers, white bandages that covers his wrist and goes up to his elbows, a purple headband just like Sally's and black finger less biker gloves and also wields a bat with nail screwed in at the top. He goes by the name Two Ton.
There were also two more that goes by no names. One of them has blue spikey hair with a purple headband, wearing a long-sleeve grey top with a horizontal line that goes around his chest, green shorts, purple boots, light green finger-less gloves and a purple necklace. The other one has red afro while wearing blue sunglasses, a dark green top with light green around his collar and trim an also has a picture of a purple dragon with the light green circle, red shorts and orange sneakers with blue and green highlights.
As they close up the rear door, with Raph trapped inside, John decided to secure the door with the electronic pad lock. As they pulled out of the alley, the three turtles hid behind the car and Sally back flipped off of it and lands near her three remaining brothers as they walked out from their hiding space watching the van.
"Aw man." Leo whispered; knowing that he is going to be in big trouble for letting his little brother for getting in a whole lot of trouble
"Imagine their surprise when they open the back of that truck." Mikey said grinning.
"Oh yeah, they'll be pretty surprised alright." Sally remarks.
"This is exactly what Master Splinter was talking about. We've got to get him out of there." Leo reminded his siblings
"What are we standing around here for? Let's go!" Sally asked in a playful way when she and her brother started running towards the closet building, Donatello took the lead and taunted.
"Last one to the roof, hatched from a rotten egg!" Don teased as he used his series of acrobatics jumps with the help of the fire escape rails to get to the rooftops with his siblings in pursuit. They looked over the edge to see the certain truck with their certain turtle locked in the vehicle.
"We can cut them off at Third and First." Leo commanded.
"If we run like crazy." Don mentioned as he and Leo starts running.
"Is there any other way to run?" Mikey asked as he and Sally begins to follow them.
"I don't think so!" Sally finished off as they continued to run. With that, the chase of the truck to rescue their brother has begun. As the truck turned right into the next street, the four teens jumped over to the next building. Mikey was taking an early lead which he decided to gloat his winning to his siblings
"You guys are too slow!" He triumphed to his brothers and sister but he thought twice when they flipped over him and landed gracefully in front of Mikey.
"You were saying, Mikey?" yelled the young kunoichi as she and her brothers continued their running. Now, the three ninjas are taking the lead, leaving the orange turtle in their dust.
"Hey!" barked Mikey. He couldn't believe they would catch up to him since he is one of the fastest. In order to win, he starts off running again and after jumping a number of building, Mikey has manage to catch up with them by sliding down on one of rooftops' building, does a flip, grabs on to a clothes line with his nunchaku and does a swing when he faceplate with a hanging towel and lost his grip with his weapon but lands on a nearby rooftop with the towel still on his head. Mikey takes a good sniff of the towel and pulls it off his head with a smile on his face.
"Mmm. Springtime fresh." He replied as he amuses the scent. He then throws off the towel and again, re-joined his brothers and sister in the chase until they jump down into the alleyway. Clearly, the original mission was to rendezvous with their master but this was more important. They just hope their Sensei would understand but he is not the only one who is in trouble…
(The Sewers – 8:45pm)
Below the surface, water was dripping from the pipes as the aged rat has made it to the old drainage junction. Over the years, Master Splinter and his children used to use this place as a training ground to practise their ninjutsu skills. He starts to look around to see if any turtle or human has shown up yet. With no answer, the rat just sighed.
"The old drainage junction. Now where are my children?" he asked himself; hoping to know what's keeping his students for being late to the rendezvous. Perhaps, they have used their time to up to the surface world. No, they wouldn't. Not with his eldest son in charge. Then again, something did happen on their way here and they have to take surface as an emergency. He couldn't blame them. They were teenagers. He knows that they can't spend the rest of their lives down here, especially Sally. She was the only human in the family and never once in her life she has been up to the surface. She was aching for adventure out of the sewers since she feels trapped down. Maybe, just maybe, it was his fault; for keeping her down here for many years, not giving her enough freedom in the world.
After a long of hard thinking, the rat has decided that it was time.
Time to let Salvadora…to have freedom.
Not the turtles, not just yet. They would absolutely know they are going to get the "stick" when they come to the rendezvous.
Just before he looked around again, footsteps were heard from below the rat's feet and the place starts to rumble and just right in front of, part of the floor began to crack and so does another one on his left. As the rat takes a few caution steps away from the danger, the danger itself appears.
Two robots crashed through the cracks and approach the rat. It was those weird machines. Again. The robot menaces close in on the rat as he was again forced back.
Looks like Splinter is definitely not the only one in trouble…
(On the surface – 8:46pm)
With no knowledge of their Sensei in trouble, the teens were still on the chase to save their brother. Their running was beginning to worn them out but luckily, they have finally caught up to the truck who had made a turned into another street. The vehicle itself has parked at the back of a building's loading zone.
Raph was still at the back door but at the sound of doors opening, he quickly vanished inside the truck. Luckily, the five goons only left the truck to go inside the building. The leader, John, turns to Two Ton who was the last to come out.
"Hey, Two Ton, watch the truck. We wouldn't want somebody to steal our stolen money." He order as he leaves; laughing his own little joke. Two Ton did what he told and guards the truck. Although, he will be expecting some intruders but what the big thug was not going to expected was these intruders just happen to be green and ninjas.
The four teens watch from the edge of a nearby building; figuring out a way to get rid of the guard and save Raph; from pretty much the careless mistake he has made. They jumped down as they get into position.
Leo gives out the signal which causes Sally to throw a can on the other side of the truck to get Two Ton's attention.
"Huh?" Two Ton replied. He goes over to the other side of the truck to find that there is no-one there. While he was distracted, Mikey snuck up behind him and taps his shoulder. Two Ton turns around to see a giant turtle wearing a ninja mask that was standing right behind him!
"Hey, this is a no parking zone. Here's your ticket." he held up a piece of paper. "And here's your fine!" With that, Mikey lifted up his leg kicking the guy into the truck and successfully knocked him out. Both Leo and Sally jumped down.
"Nice work, Mikey." Leo is impressed by his younger brother's act.
"Eh, it's a ninja thing." Mikey bragged; if he wasn't as Don jumps down behind him.
"Now, let's get Raph out of there." Leo replied. Raph was pounding on the window and yelling at them like crazy; demanding his siblings to get him out but whatever he was saying was being muffled by the door. They look at the electronic padlock that has six buttons. Although the lock was small, there would properly be over ten thousands combination and they don't have long until those thugs realize one of their men is knocked out and there are turtles trying to break into their truck!
They all looked at the lock on the doors. "Man, whatever happened to good old fashioned padlocks?"
"Ha, what's the fun of that?" Donnie gloated as he took out two screw drivers from his duffle bag. He spins them around with a cocky grin on his face and walked towards the lock.
"This one's all mine." The brainy began to get to work on the lock as the hothead continued to pound and yell. With his big brother trapped, Mikey can't help but decided to use this opportunity to tease his older brother.
"What's that, Raphael? You're gonna have to speak up, dude." He points to ear; teasing his older brother. "I can't hear you." Although, the sound was muffled from the inside, Raph has no trouble hearing Mikey, and hearing Mikey's taunts just got him angrier, so he pulled back and punched the window even harder. "Okay, I heard that."
'I'm trying to work here." Donny replied; with emphasized on the word "work" as he turned to his younger brother while wearing glasses that he modified himself.
"Knock it off, Mikey. Karma will bite you on the shell." Sally warned her little but Mikey continue to ignore her as he continues to tease Raph. As the brainy turtle works on the lock to free the tough turtle that is at his mercy by his goofy brother, Sally and Leo are both wondering if their Sensei is okay…
(The Sewers – 8:48pm)
Splinter has his own hands full as five robots approach the ninja rat. The one on his left has managed to grab hold of his robe with his sharp teeth and begins to shake it. Before it can rip the clothing off the rat, Splinter himself decided to let his tail do the talking as he used his tail to hit the robot and it collide with the wall. Bits of his robes were pulled off has fallen from the mechanic menace's jaws. The robot itself has regained its senses and lets out a robotic screech. So, these mechanics mean business, eh? Well, Splinter was not going to give up. He takes a few steps back and gets ready to defend himself while the robots advances the rat and attack him as they let out as screech.
(On the surface – 8:50pm)
After a few short minutes, the genius turtle pushed two wires together; the sparks flew from the pad lock causing it to crack open. Stepping back and pushing the glassed up, Don smiled at his masterpiece lock picking. The teens step back as the doors opened up; giving them a view of Raph near the back.
"Hey Raph, welcome back bro." Mikey greeted his brother but before he could react, Raph had already taken a running start away from the doors and tackled Mikey as the three siblings watch them.
"What a hothead." Replied Leo at his two siblings as Sally nodded in agreement as Mikey lets out a yelping of pain. Sally warned Mikey about karma but he wouldn't just listen.
"You said i—Oh boy." Sally looks passed Leo and notice something coming towards them.
Leo and Don noticed her and looks over their shoulders and completely understands what she was looking at. They draw their weapons as they started moving back.
"Uh, Raph?" Don replies.
"We don't have time for this." Leo finished backing away with his brother and sister.
"And why not?" Raph asked in an irritated state as he had his little brother pinned against the wall by his shoulders.
"Because we're not alone," Mikey answered for him, Raph let him go and the all looked in front of them with their weapons drawn.
There walking towards them was the infamous gang: The Purple Dragons. The leader, John, steps forward while holding his staff behind his neck.
"Look at the freaks." One of the members said.
Another thug takes a crack at it as he asked. "What's with the dweeby costumes?"
"This ain't Halloween." Remark another thug.
"You're going down, freaks." The leader said. He then takes out what appears to be his staff from behind him. He twirls it his hand and swing it around him. He then points his finger towards them.
"Nobody messes with the Purple Dragons, especially wearing stupid turtle costumes." He advises his opponents for tonight. But he though wrong as the teens prepare their weapons out and do their own kata.
Don does a twirl of his bo staff in one hand and with two, holds it with both hand, jumps in the air while doing a couple of wracks and ends it by doing a sweep on the ground in front of him.
Mikey brings out his nunchakus and wracks it around and brings it under his arms.
Raph has no trouble as he brought out one of his Sai and twirls it in his hand and holds in his grasp, does the same one for the other Sai and ends it with spinning kick.
Leo has already drawn out his Katana and slashes it along with the other and ends with his swords in an X-shape.
Sally draws out her Kodachi from her gauntlets and begins to slash the air in horizontal and diagonal lines, jumps in the air with her swords in her hands and lands in a drop-stance with her arms spread out and the tips of her Kodachi nearly touching each other.
The ninja team of five lets out a battle cry as they leap forward and the fight begins. Despite being the toughest street gang they are, the Purple Dragons only to be taken down in about five seconds flat by five teenagers. The satisfied siblings of ninjas stood over them in their victory poses.
Realising how tough these "freaks" are, the Purple Dragon are forced to do the only thing left: Run for their lives.
"LET'S GET OUTTA HERE!" The leader screams; terrified of them as he is the first one to start running.
"I'M WITH YOU!" replied another as he joins in. The others all ran away in terror, yelling and screaming.
The Turtles and Sally have become victorious. Using their fighting skills for the first time and easily succeeds.
"Give me some green!" Mikey cheered as he and Raph shared a "high-three".
"Well, that was easier than expected." Donny gloated as he walked next to Raph.
"I hope there are more of those guys. I'm just getting' warmed up." Raphael replied; hoping for more challenge.
Sally then senses some more people again. But it feels like that they have been watching the teens for some quite time. For who knows how many times today, Sally's powers have been greatly improved as she looks up to the source. She taps on Mikey's shoulder to get his attention. As he turns to her to see what she is looking, he then looks at her direction and understands what she meant.
"Uh… well… looks like you got your wish Raphie boy." Mikey answers as he points up to the rooftop where their "observers" have been watching them. From what they can see, it turns out to be people in back from head-to-toe and somehow they have bandana tails. Like what the Turtles and Sally have.
"Are those guys… ninjas?" Leo asked; who was surprised to see more ninjas other than him and his siblings. The so-called "ninjas" drops down from the rooftops and circle themselves around the heroes who are getting a good look of their opponents. They are wearing black clothing that covers their face and body with a red symbol on the front with long black bandana tails that hangs off the back, a dark grey tunic that goes over the black clothing with a light grey obi, dark grey gloves with metal armguards with dark grey Tabi with metal plates on it too. The teens are certainly trapped by these "new ninjas" as they armed the weapons at ready.
"Well, they're certainly ninja- esque." Mikey answered as he and his brothers and sister keep watching their adversaries.
"Be ready for anything." Leo warned as he crossed his Katanas.
"I am so gonna enjoy this." Raph said as he raised his Sais up near his face.
"You and me both, bro." Sally agreed with him.
And with that, round 2 begins. Donatello was first to deal with another as he pole-vaults over six black ninjas. As he lands, with his back towards them and his bo staff on his back, he spins around as he wacks four of ninjas in one go with his weapon. Two more charged in as Don hit his bo staff with the one with a Katana blade but he blocks the turtle's attack. Another comes in but the brainy turtle swing his staff behind him and strikes the second ninja in the gut; taking him down. Don then comes down as he blocks himself from the first ninja with the sword who does an upward strike and quickly puts the other end of his staff behind the ninja's leg and trips him; taking him down as well. Just when the purple turtle thinks this was all over for him, the two ninjas flips themselves back up. Guess these ninjas proved to be more of a challenge to the teens than they asked for.
With Raph, he has his hands full with three ninjas who are doing several of punches and kicks but the turtle had no trouble dodging them.
"Nice dragon kick. Ah, sweet double phoenix punch." Raph impressed with the moves that these ninjas can pull off that the turtle himself is actually having a great time. He also blocks some of those before he unleashes a surprise attack on them.
"Hey, do you know this one?" he asked as he delivers a spinning kick which knocks his opponents down. As he got into his horse-stance with his weapons still armed, he was ready for more.
Sally was having no trouble dealing with two ninjas of her own who were in front of the girl. As those two charge in at her, the young girl does a flip over one of the ninjas' heads and delivers a kick in the back; taking him down. As for the other one, he jumps in the air as he lifted up his sword and brought it down but instead of slicing her, she spins around and kicks the sword of his hand. She puts one of Kodachi back into its gauntlet while doing a backflip and lands graceful. She then gets the idea of to blind her opponents by using her sword. As the ninja comes charging in and with the help of the moon, she use the lunar light and reflect it into the ninjas' eyes which it was successful. While he was distracted, she puts her Kodachi away, grabs him by the black clothing in the chest area and swings him around. As she lets him go, she manages to tears off the ninja's insignia on the clothing. The ninja himself goes flying off across the loading dock. She then looks at her hand to see the black cloth all scrunch up. She unravels it to reveal a red foot symbol.
At the sight of the insignia, Sally couldn't help but looked at it. Both her eyes and hands were shaking with shock. She has become stunned and frightened. A lot of things are pouring through her mind. The symbol. This symbol.It's so scary. So bloodcurdling. So, so familiar.
It's like she has seen this symbol somewhere before but can't seem to remember it. Not one bit. As she continues to stares at the symbol, the ninjas that she took down early have regain conscience and prepare a sneak attack on the young girl.
With Leo, he was going all at it with sword against sword but proves to be skilled as he parries to his right which cause the black ninja to lose balance, leans forward and the turtle himself strikes him with the handle of his Katana. Leo does a backflip and lands on the roof behind himself.
From the small rooftops, Leo spotted the same ninjas coming up behind Sally. He sees that his sister isn't paying any attention to her opponents that were coming up from behind her.
"SALLY! BEHIND YOU!" Leo shouted to her but she didn't need to hear him because she delivers a spinning roundhouse kick to the head which knocks them both.
"Thanks, Leo!" She acknowledges the leader. She looks at the symbol and places it in her tunic and resumes the fight.
With that done, Leo then looks over to see another ninja who has jumped onto the same rooftop and to the surprised turtle; he begins to run the wall like any other skilled ninja can do. As he was closing in on the reptile, the black ninja brings out his sword and clashes it with Leo's. He then falls off the wall and skids onto the rooftops. He lands just a few feet away from the turtle with his sword at ready. Another ninja came up to the rooftops to help the other ninja as he brings out his sword and the two ninjas battle it out with the blue turtle. Leo is trying his best to hold them off.
They pushed their swords down on him with all their might as the turtle struggles to hold on.
For Mikey, he was against one with a pair of tonfas as he whacks his nunchuka around but all the black ninja can do was block his opponent's strikes. Another wielding tonfas ninjas joins the fight which proved to be tricky fight for the orange turtle.
Don was holding off two more black ninjas as they both throw metal shurikens at the turtle. But Don manages to block them by using his bo staff. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to react when one of the ninjas jumped in the air and delivers a kick which sends him shell first onto the side of the truck. Mikey joined in later who was also kicked back by his foes.
"Don…Are we beatin' them or are they beatin' us?" the orange turtle asked his older brother but Don didn't have time to answer that as he looks up and gains a freaked out look. He opens up the door on the drivers' side, pulled in his brother in and closed the door. Why? Cause they about to be skewed by a several shurikens that were coming this way but they were saved by the door and the shurikens decorated the spot that they were just a moment ago. They opened the door to see their door is embedded with shurikens.
"Asked me again when we're winning, Mikey." Don answers his younger brother while they looked at the stars.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Mikey replied. As they continue to battle the ninjas, they just hope that their Sensei is not into too much trouble…
(The Sewers – 8:53pm)
Back at the old drainage junction, Splinter wasn't exactly having a time of his life. Battle robots are not something that a ninja like him should see and fight every day. With the two robots approaching the rat, Splinter waited for them to make the first move.
The two robots jumped in the air; ready to strike but Master Splinter took out them with ease and with the help of his walking stick. Thinking the battle is over; another comes out and tries a sneak attack on the rat but the master wracks it as well. After that, the robots were nothing but twisted metal.
The mechanic menaces have been finally been destroyed. Now, with that's over, Splinter waits until the dust has settled so he can go and find his children.
But the danger hasn't yet finished. The ground below Splinter began to rumble. The support of the metal that has started to fall apart thanks to the robots that burrow their way to find the rat. The floor crumbled underneath him and begins to fall with the debris. He slid all the way down through a tunnel which leads him to the bottom. Luckily, he did not receive any injuries.
Splinter stands up and dusted himself off and starts walking down a path where he sees a bright light at the end of it. He also finds what he could not believe what his eyes were seeing…
(On the surface – 8:54pm)
The battle between ninjas vs. ninjas was becoming pretty brutal as Leo was trying to hold his own and more of those black ninjas coming at him in every direction. The black ninjas are trying their best to hold to the blue turtle but with a little strength left, he manages to punch one out of his grip on his right, kicked another on his left which leads him with three ninjas left; right in front of him.
Sally decided to help her brother out as she jumps up onto the same rooftops and runs to the ninjas.
"SPECIAL DELIVERY!" She let out her battle cry as she jumps in the air and kicks ninjas away from the turtle. With that done, they jumped off the rooftops and joined with Mikey who was near the truck. They are then joined by Raph who was getting tired as well as his brothers and sister is.
"How many of these goons do we hav' ta bat before they get the hint?" Raph asked who was getting frustrated.
"Really, they just keep coming." Mikey agreed with his hot-headed brother. They weren't kidding. More of those ninjas are coming from all ends and with the heroes backed up and all worn-out, there is no-way for them to win this battle. Sally then turned to the Fearless Leader
"Time to switch to plan B. Donatello?" Leo turned to his younger brother who was one-step ahead of him. He was busy hot-wiring the truck; trying to get the engine started.
"Almost there, Leo." Don replied as continues to hotwired the truck. He puts two green wires together which emitted sparks. As soon as he heard the engine roar to life, Don quickly sits up and took the wheel.
"This bus now leaving for anywhere but here!" He called out to his brothers and sister as he closed the door. As more ninjas showed up, Mikey, Sally and Raph are still ready to fight but Leo is not as sheathed his Katanas and grabbed Raph's shoulder.
"Come on we're going!" he orders as Donny pressed the gas pedal. With the truck on the move, Raph, Mikey, Leo and Sally all jumped into the back that was still open. With the turtle behind the wheel, they were driving towards the ninjas but they manage to move out of the way by an incoming vehicle. The teens were struggling to hold onto the truck as Don keeps ramming the sides of the building and trashcans along the way.
"Whoa, nice driving Don – for a turtle with no license." Mikey said as they were all bouncing up and down; thanks to Don's crazy driving. Not bad of a beginning driver but the turtle could use a little more training as well.
"Take it easy with the driving, Donnie. I think my dinner is about to come up!" Sally cried out as she was bounced out of her seat.
"Hey you want pretty or do you want effective?" Don joked around as he continued to hit trashcans. As Don continues to drive, the others begin to reminisce about tonight's actions.
"I gotta tell ya, this has been one mondo bizarro day." Mikey started. "First, all those metal robot things from underground. And, what's with all those ninjas? Ninjas in New York City? Besides us? It's just not right." Don made a sharp left turn, throwing Mikey out of his seat. Raph, on the other hand, grabs a duffle bag next to him from before and begins to unzip.
"Talk about not right. Check this out!" Raph replied as he opens up a duffle bag, flips it upside down and the money began to pour in front of the orange turtle.
"Holy Shell!" Sally exclaimed at the sight of all the cash. With all this money, she can imagine all the books that she can buy. Mikey looked as if Christmas came early as he grabbed two wads of cash.
"Show me the money, baby! Whoo hoo!" Mikey cheered.
"This isn't finders' keepers, Mikey." Leo sternly reminded his younger brother as he walked up to him and snatched one of the wads from him which made both Mikey and Sally pout.
They keep driving until they spotted a police car. What better place to leave the money then with them.
Inside the car were two guys. One was younger with shoulder height brown hair and has moustache and the other was much older with grey hair and wears glasses. They go by the names Officer Frank and Officer Laird. Officer Laird was drinking down on coffee when he and Frank spotted an armoured truck heading towards their way. The truck suddenly stops right beside them as Leo opens the window down.
"Take care of this money, will ya guys?" Leo asked as he threw the bags of cash on the hood of the car and drove off. Frank couldn't believe what he just saw.
"Did you see that?! Some little green men in an armoured car just threw a bunch of money at us!" Frank said to Laird but his partner could only scoff.
"Rookie." Laird said to himself.
Don continues to drive through the alleyways to the old junction where they were supposed to meet Splinter. As they got to the entrance, it was barred off but Don kept driving towards it as he rammed the bars down and continued through the tunnel while hitting the sides.
At the rendezvous, Splinter was sitting near the destroyed robots when he heard he heard a truck approaching. He did not escape into the shadows because he knows who were in that truck. Don stopped the car and he, the Turtles and Sally all got out to find their rat master who waiting for them. They ran toward their sensei as they all gave out joyous cries at the same time but Splinter interrupted them.
"I am glad to see you too, my children." He replied. He sounded happy as well. They hope he wasn't mad about them stealing a truck as well.
"Master Splinter, so much has happened today." Leo responded as he smiled at Splinter.
"Yes, yes. There will be time to tell me all about it later, Leonardo, but first, I wish to take you all home." Splinter said as he started to walk; leaving the five of them all very confused.
"Home?" Mikey said who was confused as his brothers and sister.
"We ain't got no home, those robots trashed our pad." Raph replied as he knelt down and knocked on one of the heads of the robot. "Remember Sensei?"
"Do not worry. I think I have found a solution to our…current housing problem." He then points to a recent broken hole that the teens never knew about it. "Follow me." he said as he jumped into a hole.
The five teens all looked at each other. Has their Sensei found something else that will fix their former home or what? Well, there is only one way to find out. They decided to follow their master.
Leo was the first to go as he does a single handstand and jumps into the hole. Don was next as he dives in after his big brother.
Mikey was the next to go. As he stood at the edge of the hole, he takes a deep breath before he lets out his usually catchphrase.
"Cowabu—" But he was halted when Raph pushed him in. 'Ohhhhhhh! Not funny, Raph!" he yelled at his rude big brother who he and Sally snickers at this event. Looks like Raph was getting back at Mikey for teasing him when the red turtle was trapped in the truck.
"Oh, yes, it is." he answers as he jumps in. Sally waits for a few seconds before she jumps in. She hopes that there would be cushions at the end of the ride.
Instead of falling straight down, it actually turned into a slide like what the rat experience. At the bottom, Leo arrives with a somersault, then Don has lands on, then Mikey who crashed into them by his shell, then Raph who crashed into Mikey and lastly, Sally who slammed on her side into Mikey's chest. They were all groaning with pain but the ride was totally worth it.
"Wicked slide!" Mikey exclaimed. Collecting themselves and shaking off the dust from the ride they just experience, they started following Splinter again but this time, was way ahead of the teens and was waiting for his children. Mikey ran up to him.
"No offense, Master Splinter, but this place doesn't seem so great." The orange turtle replied.
"Look with your heart, Michelangelo, and not your eyes." Master Splinter advises his son as he continues to walk ahead. Mikey stops walking as he rubs his head.
"Um, okay?" he answered as the others gathered around him.
"And walk this way." The rat orders them.
Mikey started to walk like Splinter as a joke to Splinter's words. Don crossed his arms but before Mikey could take another step, Don pulls out his Bo Staff and then smacked Mikey's head with it.
"Ow!" Mikey cried; earning a giggle from Sally who finds it amusing in her book. As the others walk ahead, Leo pulls Sally aside.
"Hey Sal. Can I talk to you?" he requested.
"Sure. Whats up?" she asked with a smile on her face. Leo stands with his arms crossed over with concern look on his face.
"So, what happen to you during the battle with those ninjas? You got distracted." he questioned her. Sally's smile just disappears. Oh, boy. Look like he has already notices it. He must have seen the garb in her hand just before those ninjas came up behind her and she didn't even noticed them but he did. What is she going to say? Like "Hey! I found this garb. I think it has to do with something from my past which I don't have a single clue about it!" Well, he does have a point. It wasn't like her to be distracted in a battle. As she tries to think of something, she decided not to tell him until she has figure out for herself.
"I-t's nothing really. Just tired from today, you know?" she told him as she puts her arm behind her back with an innocent look on her face. After a long pause, Leo was about to speak up…
"C'mon! What are we standing around for? I wanna see what Splinter wants to show us. Let's go!" she cried out as she race to catch up with her other siblings; leaving Leo all by himself.
Something is definitely up. The blue turtle knows she is keeping a secret from him. Something did happen to her in that battle. But for now, he decided to let it go and catches up with the others.
As the two ninjas catch with the others, they were at the entrance of what seems to be one of the greatest places that they have ever seen. It was a huge cavern that has huge stone pillars around the room that holds up the balcony that acts like the second floor of the cavern. There were broken pipes everywhere; not to mention the broken pieces of stone just lying about. This place may be in the ruin but it was doesn't matter to the family of ninjas because it was perfect. It felt…home.
"This is beyond awesome!" Mikey replied as he and his brothers and sister walks in with smiles on their faces.
"I could really tune this space up." Don spoke excitedly as he turned his head from side to side.
Running around exploring all the rooms and open spaces, Mikey raced upside to check out the rooms.
"This here room: mine." He announce as he points to one of the rooms. He then jumps down and goes over to where his brother Don was and points to another room. "And where you're standing: also mine."
Sally poked her head out from above. "This place is amazing! I could really get used to this!" She then jumps down to join her Sensei.
"See my children, change is good." Master Splinter advises his children.
"We couldn't agree more, Master Splinter." Leonardo acknowledges as everyone gathered around their father.
"Good, so let's see you boys clean up for a change, this chamber is filthy." he orders his children as the first thing to do in their new home.
Gaining groans from her brothers, Sally looked at them who wore miserable expressions and couldn't help but smile a little. But then, Mikey realised something. Splinter has left somebody out.
"Hey! What about Sally?" Mikey complained. They all looked at the kunoichi who has her arms crossed. She puts her hand to her chin.
"Hmm, if I remember correctly, today is my birthday, right?" Sally reminded them.
"Well, of course it is but –" Don said
"AND I was pretty much your maid back at our old place." She added. "So, I think I deserve a little break," The boys couldn't help but stare at her. They remember they used to boss her around; giving her orders and giving her a hard time. She then turned to her father.
"Isn't that right, Master Splinter?" she asked him. The boys looked at their Sensei who was deep in thought; hoping that they could use a little help from their sister.
"It is still her special day so…she deserve some time off. Enjoy the rest of your day, my dear." He interrupted them. He bows respectfully to his daughter as she bows back to him. With that, she walked away to go find her own room.
"But –" Mikey whined.
"Have fun boys. Since you guys are too busy cleaning up the place up, that means I'll get to choose which room going to be mine!" the girl teased as she jumps up to the second floor of their new home while her youngest brother complaining that he has already chosen his own room. As she walks, she places her hand on the walls as she begins to admire the place. As her hand touches the wall, she can fell a great power inside of it. Confused by the reaction, she just simply ignored it and continues pressing onwards.
After checking each room, she decided to choose the biggest room that they have in the cavern. She walks in to find her new room also a mess with bricks and broken pipes lying around. It may be a wreck but for fifteen long years, she has finally got her own room. She walks into her new room, sits on a bolder that acts like a seat and places her backpack beside her. She places her hands behind her on the boulder as she lets out a sign.
"What a day…" she replies to herself as she begins to closes her eyes and She then began to reminisce the day she just had. First, the present that she received from Splinter, then the robots and the loss of her home, venturing to the surface, her first battle with the so-called Purple Dragon and the ninjas –.
The battle.
The garb!
She almost forgot all about it. She pulls the garb out of her tunic and takes a good look at it. This symbol. This red foot symbol on the black garb is what she has been thinking for some time now. She knows that she has seen this insignia somewhere. And those ninjas? The ninjas that she and her brothers faced tonight. She doesn't seem to remember those ninjas before; just only their symbol. This could properly be the answers that she has been waiting for. Something about her past that she has long waiting for but tonight was not the night to start her search. She will have the time to sort it all out. She then pulls out her diary from her backpack and opens it up. She takes one more look at the symbol as she puts its down on her recent written page of her diary. Only one question keeps swimming in her mind as she lets out a sign.
"I know I've seen this symbol before…but where…and when?" she asked herself. Something tells her that she will find out about her answer soon enough. Very soon…
(Unknown building – 9:00pm)
…And very soon indeed; because that symbol belong to another man that Sally will face later in the future. Sitting in his office, was a Japanese man in his late thirties with long dark blue hair and dark piercing eyes. He was wearing a grey short-sleeve tunic with light tan long sleeve and wears a dark tan Obi across his waist. His pants and Tabi shoes are also the same colour as his sleeve. The same red foot symbol was located on his tunic on both sides on the front. He goes by the name Oroku Saki.
His office was set up like any Japanese room you know but a lot darker. On two sides are blue Shoji that acts like windows. The floor is striped with the colour bloody red and the walls were also the same colour as well. Behind him are his two Katanas both resting on a stand that is placed on another table as well. The table that was in front of him had a dark yellowish table cloth that goes over the edge. The two tables and himself were sitting on a platform which it was foot higher from the floor. There were also two lit-up torches near him; one on each side, a red rug a few meters right in front of him and all over the room were long black banner with the same red foot symbol on it.
As he sits in his office, he pours his own tea with a ladle into a small cup that he lifts with his hands and slurps it with ease as his eyes are focus on a certain object in the room. That object was none other than the leader of the Purple Dragons himself, John! As he puts the glass down on the table, he listens in on his subject's report.
"S-s-sir? I-uh-I-I…my men…We, uh, we lost the armoured car with the money, but we were attacked. By some sort of karate frog creatures or something. And a g-girl was with them too." John shakily explains; hoping trying his best not faces the consequences. But by the sound of his report; Saki was not exactly pleased with this. Not very pleased at all. He frowns as John continues to plead for mercy.
"They took us by surprise. I-it wasn't my fault." John clarifies.
"Enough!" Saki exclaims as he holds out his hand; the steam from his tea has moved with in time of his motion.
"I promise, sir. I won't fail you again." John assure his boss; hoping for a second chance.
"I know. You won't fail me again. Ever!" he exclaim. He rise from his seat as John looks at him with horror on his face. He quickly bows down to his master.
"No, sir! please!" John pleaded; hoping for forgiveness. The doors with the insignia closed the room to muffle out the noise. With the blood-curling scream made by the Purple Dragon leader, Saki has finished off John as his punishment. Saki then lets out a malevolent laugh as he accomplish taking down another failed operator.
Well, it looks like Sally is going to have a lot more trouble when she meets Oroku Saki; face-to-face…
WOW! Some day this turned out for Sally. First, she was celebrating her birthday with her family, then her home got trashed cause of the mysterious robots, then she and her brothers got separated from her Sensei, then they venture up to the surface and battle thugs and ninjas for the first time and then, finally reunited with Master Splinter and found themselves a new home. Not to mention that we also got to see Oroku Saki. Ohhhhhhh, but we will get to see him later in the fanfic and what's with Sally being distracted by the symbol on the clothing of those ninjas? Does she have some kind of connection to Saki. Well, read on and find out next time on:
The Saint's Hope: A Better Mousetrap
Author's Notes: Hey! Just finish the first chapter of the Greatest Show on Earth that has ever made by the two Greatest Guys on Earth! And sorry for the wait. I just got back from shopping with my mum and sister who were shopping for horse gear. My sister rides horses and my mum wanted me to get out of the house for a change. Sorry about that. Anyway, with this chapter done, I'm going to get started on the next one where we get to find out the robots and where we get to meet April and Dr. Stockman. And my other fanfic that I really want to get finished: Sonic : The Movie! I feel like I have been ditching that story for some time now and I really want to finish it ASAP and who knows, it might turn into a blockbuster film in the future…I hope. But the next chapter is not done yet so it will be uploaded tomorrow at 5:00pm, hopefully. And then its Kung Fu Hedgehog that everyone is DYING for me to finish it.
Also, forgot to mention this in my last chapter that I put some Japanese greetings in it. If you guys are curious to know what they mean, here they are:
Ohayou-gozaimasu – Good Morning (polite)
Tanjyoubi omedetou gozaimasu – Happy Birthday
Arigatou-gozaimasu, Otosan – Thank you, Father (polite)
Gomenasai - Sorry
And Sally's given name: Salvadora, is Spanish for Saviour just to let you know because it actually fits her and the reason of this story. So, look out for more updates and looking forward to more reviews and I'm surprised to hear people like the 2k3 version more than the 2012 version. Let's just hope we don't start a war, ok?
Also, it HAS been a long time since I last wrote up a story like this cause the time and also I have to write it while I'm watching the episode as well and I just hope you guys like the new story and the other stories in the future.
We also got a chance to see a bit of Sally's powers like sensing other around her and the ability to move objects and a whole lot more. So, remember to review and add me or the story to favourites. Love to hear more from my fans! Sayonara!
Until we meet again,
TheDragonLord2912